glom

• IPA^(key): /ɡlɒm/

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• Rhymes: -ɒm

From Scottish English glom, glaum (“to grab or snatch at”), a variant of clam, claum (“to clutch, seize, grasp, reach for”), from Middle English *clammen, from Old English clæmman (“to pinch, press, inclose”), from Proto-West Germanic *klammjan. Related to clamp.

glom (third-person singular simple present gloms, present participle glomming, simple past and past participle glommed)

1. (transitive, informal) To take, steal.
2. (intransitive, informal) To grab hold of, seize; catch, grab or latch onto.
   • 2000, Jodi Picoult, Plain Truth, page 17,

     “The oil pan cracked, the engine seized, and the internal parts glommed together.”

   • 2014 May 28, Sarah Terez Rosenblum, “After 15 Years Of Lesbianism, I'm Dating Men And I Have No Idea What I'm Doing”, in XOJane‎, retrieved 2014-05-30:

     Bisexuals, she said, glommed onto lesbians because they feared their fathers, or had been devastated by ex-boyfriends.

   • 2015, Janet Rae-Dupree, Pat DuPree, Anatomy and Physiology Workbook For Dummies, 2nd Edition, page 217,

     In short, blood comes through the artery (arteriole) and material gloms onto the nephron before twisting through the near (proximal) tubes, looping the loop, twisting through the distant (distal) tubes, and collecting itself at the other end.

• glom on
• glom onto
• glommer

• glom, entry in TheFreeDictionary.com.

Variant of glaum, gloom (“to frown, scowl, stare at”).

glom (third-person singular simple present gloms, present participle glomming, simple past and past participle glommed)

1. (intransitive) Alternative form of glaum.(Can we verify⁽⁺⁾ this sense?)

glom (plural gloms)

1. (medicine, colloquial) Short for glomerulus.

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• Rhymes: -ɔm

glom

1. singular past indicative of glimmen

From Proto-West Germanic *glōm, from Proto-Germanic *glōmaz. Cognate with Norwegian glom (“transparent cuticle or membrane”).

• IPA^(key): /ɡloːm/

glōm m

1. gloom; twilight, gloaming
2. darkness

• The exact gender of glōm is uncertain. It is usually assumed to be a strong masculine noun.

• ǣfenglōm
• mistglōm
• nihtglōm

• *glōmian
• glōmung

• Middle English: *glom
  • English: gloom
  • Scots: glom, gloam